Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [pron] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Christian attorney Constance Cumbey goes a step further in The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow when she writes of the ‘ coming age of barbarism ’ , and describes the New Agers as a ‘ viable movement that truly meets the scriptural requirements for the Antichrist and the political movement that will bring him on the world scene ’ . |
| 32 | She told one foreign reporter that she knew of the rumours and laughed them off , saying , ‘ If my relationship with the General Staff makes me a secret agent , maybe I am ! ’ |
| 33 | Does this point lose its edge if we think of the differences as socially rather than naturally produced ? |
| 34 | Sophie said shortly , ‘ I 'm sure she will , ’ then relapsed into silence and tried to hide her apprehension as she thought of the task that lay ahead . |
| 35 | Paul Oldfield topped the lot in Melody Maker when he wrote of the track ‘ Living And Learning ’ that it ‘ made me think of a man who favoured The Jasmine Minks and My Bloody Valentine , but whose bedroom was so damp that miraculous spores and mildew afflicted his brown suede and paisley . ’ |
| 36 | The author warms to his subject when he writes of the Peninsular War . |
| 37 | She had to , in order not to notice the faint scent of his cologne , the feel of wool against her cheek when she turned to follow his pointing finger , the deep timbre of his voice as he spoke of the Rome he loved , spoke of it tenderly , as he would of a woman … |
| 38 | It is on this account that we talk of the baby 's right to life , much as we would of a normal adult . |
| 39 | The subsequent release of 1,300 pages of witness interviews and depositions collected by the police during their investigation contained many inconsistencies , but appeared to contradict Senator Kennedy 's assertion that he learned of the alleged assault only after returning to Washington DC on April 1 . |
| 40 | Feldstein told Holly at what time they went over to the Kitchen for the evening 's food and he spoke of the compulsory attendance afterwards at the Political Education Unit . |
| 41 | And I think the the local touch if you like of the principal beat officer , er shows itself on occasions like that . |
| 42 | However , one detects more than just a hint of resentment when he talks of the ‘ middle-class ’ , who , with their penchant for rationalisation and organisation , appear to have appropriated the game . |
| 43 | I was engaged in enquiry into the matter when I learnt of the attack upon her sister . |
| 44 | You do n't know it , but my hair stood on end when you spoke of the future as you did . |
| 45 | ‘ I think it 's lovely , ’ said Camille , wiping away a tear as she thought of the joyful , urgent creatures , little more than puppies , having to be put to death . |
| 46 | It was this — you have now , or should have , at least a sovereign left out of your monthly pay & what survived of the 15/ from the Bank ; so is it not best to send it all to me at once ? |
| 47 | Erm but er I suppose more recently um this business of understanding sex in relation to power , in relation to the powers of the participants , has has has effectively er knocked Kinsey 's notions off the agenda in the last sort of y'know fifteen years , ten years , five years , so that people are much more erm inclined to say well physical size , disparities , erm disparities in the credibility if you like of the of the perpetrator and survivor erm and all those kinds of things make er make a big difference so it 's not it 's not gon na be mutualistic . |
| 48 | IAN Gow , the Conservative member for Eastbourne , is famed for three things : a doglike devotion to the Prime Minister , a deadpan sense of humour , and his quixotic resignation as housing minister because he disapproved of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 49 | Roger Duvoisin ( 1965 , p.25 ) extends this idea when he speaks of the well-designed page . |
| 50 | Sweeney Agonistes also recalls Eliot 's childhood when he wrote of the ‘ South Pacific ’ . |
| 51 | He 's the sort of grandfather I would have liked to have , ’ Paige said shortly , then softened her tone as she thought of the kindly gentleman who had taken her under his wing . |
| 52 | Heclo and Wildavsky adopt an anthropological tone when they speak of the British policy-making system in Whitehall concerned with public expenditure as a ‘ village community with a variety of subtle norms about the type of behaviour which is acceptable and unacceptable , praiseworthy and condemnable . |
| 53 | And he wonders at his own sanity when he hears of the wealth of some of his rivals . |
| 54 | Gandhi , as we have seen , uses different terminology when he speaks of the symbols of religion becoming fetishes which , in his view , are idolatrous and fit only to be discarded . |
| 55 | " That Cassowary will come to a band end , " grunted old Owl when he heard of the goings-on . |
| 56 | When most people possessed no clocks or watches but lived more in the countryside than they do today , they took far more note than we do of the various timings associated with plants and animals . |
| 57 | well not exact , obviously , I 'm not saying you remembered if it was a Tuesday morning or a Wednesday afternoon , but he gave you instructions according to Mr in February nineteen eighty seven , would it be about that time that you learnt of the instructions ? |
| 58 | The mountain now stands at 1.2m tonnes — a mind-boggling figure , best be put in context if you think of the 450-mile-long queue of 40,000 lorries which would be needed to carry it away . |
| 59 | The Labour leader made formal obeisance to the language of socialism when he complained of the ‘ neglect of the productive base ’ . |
| 60 | Walter Raleigh , Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford , also emphasized this negative role for the intermediary between text and reader when he warned of the dangers of any " immodesty " on the part of the teacher . |